Author of `The Maori history and place names of Hawke's Bay', edited by DR Simmons, (Wellington: Reed, 1973).
Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
J D H Buchanan - Maori Land Court minutes (Hastings)
Date: [1891-1970]
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MSY-4896
Description: Extracts from the Maori Land Court minute books concerning the Hastings area by J D H Buchanan; also notes by McEwen, extracts from other sources, and notes on the Upper Hutt area Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Hawkes Bay Place names
Date: n d
From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history
Reference: 88-070-01/05
Description: Contains extracts from J D H Buchanan's book `The Maori history and place names of Hawkes Bay', published in 1973, and other short notes about various aspects of Maori culture Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Copy map of Ohiti-Omahū district, Hawkes Bay
Date: [Between 1948 and 1999]
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MapColl-Reserve-832.3a/[ca.1890]/Acc.27674
Description: Copy of a 1948 map showing Ohiti and Omāhu areas, Hawke's Bay, with Māori place names. Created between 1948 and date of deposit in 1999. Original map compiled circa 1890 from Land and Survey maps, manuscript plans, original plans of Hawke's Bay crown grants, and later copied by John Duncan Henry Buchanan in 1948. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 42 x 35 cm. Scale 1:31 680
[Map of] Ohiti-Omahu district [Hawkes Bay, ca. 1890] by J D H Buchanan, 1948. [ms map]
Date: 1948 - 1890
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3a/[ca.1890]/Acc.386
Description: Probably a copy of a map created in 1890 by the Department of Lands and Surveys. Shows Maori place-names. Compiled from L & S maps, Ms plans, original plans of Hawke's Bay crown grants. "Ohiti - Ōmāhu District". MTG Hawke's Bay. https://collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects/68651/map-ohiti-omahu-district accessed 22 August 2023. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 42 x 35 cm. Scale 1:31 680 Processing information: Description updated August 2023.
Correspondence with various people
Date: 1949-1953
From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries
Reference: MS-Papers-0261-34/10
Description: Including Charles Brasch, 1950; Richard Rolston, 1950; Bernard Freyberg, 1950; and others, 1949-1953 Mentions the gifting of a carved whare whakairo by a Ngai Tahu chief to Hikawera and Mahupuku of the Wairarapa district; and human remains and a whale bone patu (patu paraoa) found near Foxton. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
[Creator unknown] :Waimarama Block [copy of ms map]. [ca. 1900]
Date: 1895 - 1905
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3bje/[ca.1900]/Acc.237
Description: Plan of Waimarama Block showing named sub-blocks and paddocks. Depicts Maori reserves, and blocks including Te Aratipi, Ngangaripi, Maroeketia, Karamea, Puketapu, Te Atiti, Fighting Pa, Reuben's Spur, Wairuru, Cow Paddock No. 2. Streams indicated include Waimgamgoru, Maraetotora, Ngamangatawa and Waongongoro. The boundary is shared with Beetham Brothers (south), John Buchanan (west), G P Donnelly (north) and the ocean (east). Traced 1947 by J D H Buchanan from original in possession of S. Belcher, Waimarama Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 76 x 122 cm. Provenance: S Belcher
Kennedy Bros. (Firm), fl. 1892-1907 :Plan of Te Aute Station [copy of ms map]. Surveyor...
Date: 1892 - 1948
By: Kennedy Brothers (Hawke's Bay, N.Z.); Williams, Charles Athol, 1899-1990
Reference: MapColl-832.3bje/1892/Acc.234
Description: Map of Te Aute Station adjoining Poukawa Native Reserves and the College land showing land blocks, some of which are numbered, some named, with acreages. Roads are marked and the Waipatukakaho Stream is named. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scale 1:15 840, 64.7 x 76.5 cm.
[Creator unknown] :After a plan of Gwavas estate [copy of ms map]. [Surveyed by] Kenned...
Date: 1900 - 1940
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961; Kennedy, Arthur Angus, 1866-1931; Kennedy, Charles Dugald, 1858-1929; Kennedy Brothers (Hawke's Bay, N.Z.); Morgan, J R, active 1894-1910
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[19-?]/Acc.232
Description: Plan of Gwava's estate, providing name and acreage of several runs of farm land, from the Poporangi Stream southwards to the Mangamauku and Mangaonuku Streams, Tikokino, Central Hawkes Bay. Examples of names of the blocks are Winter Range Block (2165-2-0), Wether Paddock, Tolma Hapu Block, 930 acres, Far Maraekakaho Paddock, 810 acres. The homestead is situated on 66 acres. Some blocks are unnamed. Written on map under title: 'Kennedy Bro[ther]s and Morgan Surveyors. Original in possession of Mrs O Hudson. Traced by JDH Buchanan, May 1949'. Other Titles - brothers Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:15 840], 93 x 78 cm. Provenance: Mrs O Hudson
Members completed forms for proposed Register of Book Collections - Surnames A-D
Date: 1952-1955
From: New Zealand Ex Libris Society : Records
Reference: 88-084-1/09B
Description: Members names entered in name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
[Creator unknown] :Part of a sketch map entitled Mr McLean's run, Maraekakahu [Maraekak...
Date: 1860 - 1870
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[186-?]/Acc.1944
Description: Sketchmap of Donald McLean's farm, Maraekakaho (Hastings District), bordering the Mangaonuku, Mangatahi and Maraekakaho Streams, the Ngaruroro River and Mason's freehold run. Also depicts Te Heke, Raukawa West, Matapiro, Okawawa Stream and Ngatarawa No. 3. Traced by J D H Buchanan, 30/5/48 Note on map (before copied): 'Showing Lyon's run, HWP Smith's run, Crown land applications'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 42 x 30 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.
Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961 :Plan of Ngatarawa nos. 1 & 1a. [ms map]. Traced...
Date: 1870 - 1879
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[187-?]/Acc.387
Description: Hand-drawn tracing by G.D.H.B. [i.e. J.D.H.B.], of a plan of Ngatarawa land blocks Nos. 1 and 1a, adjacent to the Ngaruroro River and the Heretaunga block, which include acreages and settlement names. Block No. 1 is outlined in red and blue pencil Owners of the blocks are listed as 'Noa Hicki and others' and 'Renata Kawepo and others'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, 42.2 x 43.1 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.
Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961 :[Tracing of part of the Castle Point Block, tak...
Date: 1800 - 1948 - 1860
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[ca.1853]/Acc.229
Description: Tracing of part of the Castle Point block, Masterton District, from the Akitio River to the Puketoi Range, including Wahatuara, Te Komata, Pakehou, Ratau Puhipuhi, Otuarehua, Mangahewa, Wakaroro, Piaha and the Waimata River. Handwritten note at bottom of map states: From a plan in McLean Papers in Turnbull Library, entitled "Castle Point Block, taken from plan attached to Castle Point Deed". Unsigned, undated. Traced JDHB 30/5/48. Complete map at MapColl-832.45gbbd/[ca.1853]/Acc.2737 contains more detailed information. Title assigned by cataloguer Other Titles - Tracing of part of the Castlepoint Block Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 34 x 15 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean papers Group 0032.
Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961 :[Rough sketch of sections south of Wellington -...
Date: 1800 - 1890
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[186-?]/Acc.2809
Description: Tracing of Akitio Station from the Akitio River to the border of the Wellington and Hawkes Bay Regions. Blocks of land belonging to Donald McLean, Speedy, Esdale and Hamilton are marked. Sites of homesteads are marked. Includes areas marked as Waimate country, also Front Range, Middle Hill, Cabbage Tree country, Hogget Run and Wedder Run. Includes Mungahawa Creek. Inscription on map states: McLean, (traced GDHB) Title handwritten at top of map, believed added at a later date Sticker on reverse states No. 5 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on card, linen backed, 40.4 x 25.4 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.
[Creator unknown] :Map of the province of Hawke's Bay (late district of Ahuriri) New Ze...
Date: 1859
By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Andersen, E, active 1859; Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/1859/Acc.230;1947
Description: Cadastral map of northern to central Hawke's Bay, including Mohaka southwards to Napier, Hastings, Waipawa and Waipukurau, as at 1859. It depicts land acquired by the government, boundaries of runs (farms) including settler names, boundaries of purchases and land ownership, Maori reserves, Maori geographical place names, pa sites, Maori tracks, roads and rivers, as indicated on the map's reference key. The Mohaka block includes names associated with land titles, namely Riddle, Anderson; pa sites including Kotokakarunga and Waipapa (beside the Mohaka) and Towitikoko and Waikare (beside the Waikare River). Several geographical places, Maori villages and streams are named. Block lot numbers 1-27 are indicated. The Ahuriri and Napier district blocks include the settler names A Alexander, JGS Garker, William Villers, Cockburn, Munro & Blair, Marshall, HB Sealy, W Ogilvy, M Hill, Dyson, William Gouper Jnr, Gray, Imrie. Named pa sites include Pia Pa Awatoto; named bush areas include Pohui and Puketitiri. The Te Mata and Kidnapper blocks include the names J Chambers, G Moore, A St. Hill, Rhodes. Note on map reads 'Karinema's [Karenema's] reserve under offer' (Havelock North area). Pa site indicated at Marae Totora (Maraetotora) and north and south of Whakatu, Heretaunga, along the Ngaruroro River. Waimarama block is noted as 'in treaty for'. Waimarama and Arana blocks include the names W Gouper, J Montieth; Hapuku's block Chapman, Hargrove and Gouper, HS Tiffen, ES Gurling, E Collins. The Waipawa block includes the names FJ Abbott, Tanner, Worgan, RJ Duncan, R Pharazyn; Maraekakaho includes Mason, Ormond, D[onald] McLean; the Aorangi block includes Oliver, Tuke, Domett and the Otaranga J Alexander and James Williams. The Aorangi Reserve is depicted in Maraetotora beside the 'old pa Native reserve'. Sketched roads and settlement areas are indicated around the port of Napier, Aorangi and east of the Ngaruroro River between Clive (Waipurehu) and Te Awanga. On the second smaller sheet, the Porangahau and Ruahine blocks include the settler names JN Northwood, D Gollan, KR Russell, TP Russell, Tully, Henton, A Grant, Ormond's, Wallaces, Herberts. Includes Waipukurau, Maori reserves, 'areas in treaty for'. 'Traced from the original in HB Museum, March 1947. JDHB'. Settler name annotations were added to map before it was traced See also second diazo copy MapColl-832.3gbbd/1859/Acc.231;1948 Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:126 720], 74 x 100 cm and 60 x 65 cm.
Creator unknown :[Maps and sketches of Hawkes Bay traced from manuscripts in McLean pap...
Date: 1800 - 1860
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[18--?]/Acc.453
Description: Comprises seven separate maps from the McLean papers that have been copied onto one map, traced by J D H Buchanan in 1948. They are 1 - Shows the placenames of the provincial district of Hawkes Bay; 2 - Maori land claims along the Mohaka River; 3 - the new 1851 boundary of the Waipawa River and the Mangaonuku Stream; 4 a rough sketch of the government purchase at Okawa ; 5 - map showing the Te Whare o te Pounamu in between the Pakiaka bush and Whakatu and Pakowhai; 6 - sketch of Tautane District showing quarantine ground for stock and Esdale's property; 7 - plan of Ngatarawa no. 1. Map in two pieces and joined in centre with linen backing. Quantity: 7 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 60 x 42 cm or smaller, sheet 78 x 140 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS McLean papers Group 0032.
[Creator unknown] :[Sketch plan of the area near Ormond (Ormondville) showing a] Reserv...
Date: 1868 - 1878
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbh/[ca.1873]/Acc.3311
Description: Sketchmaps of land near Ormondville, southern Hawkes Bay, depicting part of the boundary of the Eparaima Maori Reserve, the Tauraekaetai, the Hua Tukituki and the Ohinehua Streams, a road, bush, and fern hills. The first is a sketch of 'Paul's Native (Maori) reserve', which runs from Ormondville, over grass flats, between the Tauraekaetai and Ohinehua Streams, and includes bush on both sides of the Hua Tukituki stream, to a vertical boundary point. Across the boundary is bush designated for 'white people'. On the second map of the same area, entitled 'Reserve as it w[oul]d be available for white people', the boundary is horizontal and located two-thirds along the Tauraekaetai Stream. The area above the boundary is marked 'all good bush'; the area below is marked 'good bush available for white people'. Both maps indiciate the Eparaima Maori Reserve, beside the Tauraekaetai Stream and the road. Traced by GDH Buchanan. Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s) on single sheet. Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, 23 x 19 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean papers Group 0032.
[Creator unknown] :[Sketch of sections in Mangateretere West Block, Hawke's Bay] [ms ma...
Date: 1850 - 1870
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers
By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[18-?]/Acc.1403
Description: Tracing map of Mangateretere West Block, Heretaunga, depicting Te Puku (8), Kotorewerohea (9) and Te Whare o te Pounamu (10). A red line has been drawn to link these three areas. Te Whare o te Pounamu is beside the Ngaruroro River. Also shown is an indication of sections 1-7, a road and the [Pakiaka] bush. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink in paper, part coloured, linen backed, 26 x 36 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean Papers Group 0032.